Album Reccomendations

Anyone fancy reccomending me some albums? I'm fairly open minded to genre etc. however no mass produced, top 40,autotuned shit please

This is a really good idea. I'll share a few ideas. I listen to pretty much everything, so it'll be a pretty diverse mix of music.


From left-to-tight; descending row-by-row:

1) Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
2) Skream - Outside The Box
3) Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
4) Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
5) The xx - the xx
6) letlive. - Fake History
7) Royksopp - Melody A.M.
8 ) Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
9) Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
10) The Wonder Years - The Upsides
11) Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
12) Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
13) Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
14) Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
15) N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
16) Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times
17) Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World
18) City & Colour - Sometimes
19) A Loss For Words - Motown Classics
20) Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
21) Flight of The Conchords - Flight of The Conchords
22) Blink 182 - Blink 182
23) DJ Fresh - Kryptonite
24) Alexisonfire - Crisis
25) Chase & Status - More Than Alot
26) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
27) City & Colour - Bring Me Your Love
28) Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
29) The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
30) Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
31) Four Year Strong - Rise Or Die Trying
32) Dr. Dre - 2001
33) Architects - Hollow Crown
34) Cream Trance Anthems Ibiza 2009 - Various Artists (I hate compilations as much as anyone but this is a particularly good mix, and loads of Trance artists don't even put out full albums, just white labels/EPs)
35) Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
36) Notorious B.I.G - Greatest Hits (Again, an compilation...I'd recommend 'Ready to Die' more, but this is a good start if you're first checking him out)

There are TONS more artists everyone should check out - the obvious ones, like Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley - but there's a shit load of albums there I feel are easy to jump into (especially bearing in mind bands like LZ etc. usually have shit loads of albums, it doesn't really do 'em justice picking one album out of all their awesome ones)

Oh that grid is missing Bloc Party too - 'Silent Alarm' is a classic.

(Fucking long post, I know)

Thumper wrote:Anyone fancy reccomending me some albums? I'm fairly open minded to genre etc. however no mass produced, top 40,autotuned shit please

Might I say that almost ALL music produced this decade is auto-tuned. Just to let you know.

Pete wrote:

Thumper wrote:Anyone fancy reccomending me some albums? I'm fairly open minded to genre etc. however no mass produced, top 40,autotuned shit please

Might I say that almost ALL music produced this decade is auto-tuned. Just to let you know.

I like SOME auto-tuned music...but only when it's blatantly auto-tuned for effect, like Daft Punk or Kanye West's last album. When it's used to change the pitch (aka disguise not-very-good voices), I wanna punch a blind baby straight in the teeth and piss on a dying cat.

JackHizzle wrote:

Pete wrote:

Thumper wrote:Anyone fancy reccomending me some albums? I'm fairly open minded to genre etc. however no mass produced, top 40,autotuned shit please

Might I say that almost ALL music produced this decade is auto-tuned. Just to let you know.

I like SOME auto-tuned music...but only when it's blatantly auto-tuned for effect, like Daft Punk or Kanye West's last album. When it's used to change the pitch (aka disguise not-very-good voices), I wanna punch a blind baby straight in the teeth and piss on a dying cat.

I think some people don't realise that auto-tune is also a mixing tool as well. As a mixing tool, it's like reverb, when you have too much of it on a track you begin to get suspicious about the recording. E.g. Someone like Dallas Green, you can't really hear it even though it's there. That's what I find acceptable. It's bands like Metro Station and Owl City where they try to pass heavily auto-tuned voices as proper singing and I cannot stand it. When it's done as effect, it can sound quite nice.

I like autotune as effect but not out of neccesity, I have autotune vst but I use it to experiment with music, not because i'm a sell-out who prefers money to the enjoyment of making music

Oh and also if you need some music to chillax to:



Best ambient music album out there, highly recommended!

JackHizzle wrote:I wanna punch a blind baby straight in the teeth and piss on a dying cat.

LOL That made my night.


I like these guys quite a bit.

aprilMCC wrote:


I like these guys quite a bit.

Such a good album.

Pete wrote:

aprilMCC wrote:


I like these guys quite a bit.

Such a good album.

It is! It's such a bummer that I can't find it around here. I have to buy it off itunes.

Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Mogwai - Mr Beast
Mogwai - Young Team
Cloudkicker - anything, his shit's free anyway, you have no excuse
Alexisonfire - Watch Out!
Set Your Goals - Mutiny
letlive. - Fake History
Marmaduke Duke - The Duke Pandemonium
Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger
Miles Davis - King of Blues
Movits! - Äppelknycktarjazz
The National - High Violet
New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones
Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts
Regina Spektor - Far
Rush - Moving Pictures
Seasick Steve - Dog House Music
Sucioperro - Pain Agency
The Swellers - Beginning of the End Again
The Xcerts - Scatterbrain
Jónsi - Go
International Superheroes of Hardcore - Takin' it Ova!
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Harry J Allstars - Liquidator
Goldie Lookin' Chain - Greatest Hits
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
Foals - Antidotes
Cyclamen - Senjyu
City and Colour - Sometimes
City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
José González - In Our Nature
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
Canterbury - Thank You
Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Biffy Clyro - thekidswhopoptodaywillrocktomorrow
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Brand New - Daisy
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Alexisonfire/Moneen - The Switcheroo Series: Alexisonfire vs. Moneen
Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
Alexisonfire - Crisis
and of course

You missed the best Xcerts, Swellers, Gaslight Anthem, Brand New and Arcade Fire albums. Won't argue with anything else.

Ahhhhh, thanks guys, definitely gonna beef up my iTunes library

Keep 'em coming though, I want to see how many albums people can think of in one thread

Just thought i'd mention I now love The Wonder Years, just goes to show what a little forum activity can do

Thumper wrote:Just thought i'd mention I now love The Wonder Years, just goes to show what a little forum activity can do

Good good man! Check out A Loss For Words, Fireworks and Four Year Strong next

JackHizzle wrote:

Thumper wrote:Just thought i'd mention I now love The Wonder Years, just goes to show what a little forum activity can do

Good good man! Check out A Loss For Words, Fireworks and Four Year Strong next

Got some FYS already, liked them for a while, downloaded quite a few of the albums on your list actually, I approve of your music taste

Pretty tired so not gonna do a list but I'm listening to this before bed and it's an album everyone should hear once.



Oh and Black Sabbath's first 3 albums are essential listening in my mind (although I've been obsessed with all the Ozzy era albums since i was like 8 or 9 haha), as are all 5 Simon & Garfunkel albums

Trivium - Shogun
Atreyu - The Curse
>> Fort Minor - The Rising Tied <<
Alestorm - Black Sails at Midnight

The new Deadmau5 album
Happiness - Hurts
Magnetic Man - Magnetic Man
Save Me San Francisco - Train
& the Cruel Intentions soundtrack

Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
Proceed - Seven months and a fire blanket
Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose
Danny Byrd - Rave Digger
Frank Turner - Love Ire & Song
His Statue Falls - Collisions
Kenai - Hail The Escapist
Make Sparks - Rewind
Me Vs Hero - Days That Shape Our Lives
Midgar - Lead Your Children To The Sky
Our Last Night - We Will All Envolve
The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile
The Xcerts - Scatterbrain
This City - We Were Like Sharks
Your Demise - The Kids We Used To Be...

two door cinema club - tourist history.

crystal castles - crystal castles II.
these new puritans - hidden.
funeral party - funeral party.
flood of red - leaving everything behind.
the streets - original pirate material.
new order - substance.
regina spektor - far.
paul weller - stanley road.

Mouthwash - true Stories
Anti-Vigilante - secure beneath the watchful eyes
Your Demise - the kids we used to be & ignorance never dies
Versaemerge - fixed at zero
The Clash - self titled & london calling
Sonic Boom Six - ruff guide to genre-terrorism & city of thieves
Rancid - and out come the wolves
King Blues - Under The Fog & Save The World, Get The Girl
Moral Dilemma - Right To Remain Silent

JohnnyCallaghan wrote:Mouthwash - true Stories
Anti-Vigilante - secure beneath the watchful eyes
Your Demise - the kids we used to be & ignorance never dies
Versaemerge - fixed at zero
The Clash - self titled & london calling
Sonic Boom Six - ruff guide to genre-terrorism & city of thieves
Rancid - and out come the wolves
King Blues - Under The Fog & Save The World, Get The Girl
Moral Dilemma - Right To Remain Silent

the clash! ♥